EPISODE 2
| - | I thought my destiny was in this world. |
| - | But I was wrong, my destiny has always been here, on this bridge. |
| ~ | Cut! |
Director JUNG DAE-YOON (40s), sitting on his folding chair.
| - | We'll keep this one, for lack of anything better... |
On his badge, "Director - Jung Dae-Yoon", and "W".
Everywhere, technicians, props, lamps, cables, cameras.
Alls under the rain produced by an artificial system.
An female assistant holds an umbrella over Jung Dae-Yoon.
At the bridge entrance, a security team blocks access to a crowd of curious people.
Jung Dae-Yoon inveighs at technicians, while pointing at the guardrail.
| - | For fuck's sake, what the hell are you waiting for to pull him up? |
| - | That he falls in this bloody river for real? |
| - | But... we were already taking care of it... |
| - | Since when do you answer, asshole? Think you're Kang Chul? |
| - | ... ("I should have shut-up") |
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| - | What are you waiting for to tell them to move their asses? (takes off his cap) |
| - | Piss off, dickhead! (he hits several times the technician's buttocks with his cap) |
The technician arches his back, lets out ridiculous screams, stomps his feet, then runs off.
| - | (to the nearest guy) You, there! |
| - | ... ("mercy, not me") |
Jung Dae-Yoon points away to the technician in charge of the artificial rain.
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| - | Go tell the other moron that he has 3 seconds to stop raining on my shoes... |
| - | ... or I'll make him chomp his garden hose! |
The guy quickly bends down to signal he understands, then runs off.
Jung Dae-Yoon takes his megaphone, and boosts volume to the max.
| - | Fucking lazy bastards, shake your stinking asses, goddamn dogshit!!! |
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| - | We have all the freakin' scenes with Han Hyo-Joo to shoot after that! |
The whole staff panics. It's running in all directions!
| - | (to himself) At least an actress on whom we can rely... |
Meanwhile, Kang Chul walks towards his team of props guys.
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| - | Where the fuck is he going? |
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| - | Yah! Kang Chul! |
| - | Come here, I have a few words to say to you. |
| - | What is it, director Jung? |
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| - | Do you have any idea how much dough we're throwing away to make such a scene on this shitty bridge? |
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| - | Don't you think you could be a bit involved? A minimum? |
| - | Ah, Gentleman has the physique, he even has the name! |
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| - | But when are you going to get into your frakking character? |
| - | When he is asleep in his bed, or in a coma in the river? |
| - | Oh, bollocks! He doesn't give a shit what I say to him, that punk. |
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| - | For the hero who was looking for a murderer and became one himself... |
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| - | ... there could not be a better end. |
| - | Sorry, director Jung, the monologue didn't seem very accurate to me. |
| - | Oooh, my pitiful little bunny. |
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| - | Do you know who wrote it? |
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| - | Shit! We have the best screenwriter in Korea! |
Kang Chul sees Yeon-Joo in the crowd of curious people, and...
The crowd gets restless, confused movements, Yeon-Joo shouts.
Instantly, Kang Chul runs in her direction.
Jung Dae-Yoon didn't notice, he speaks with his head down.
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| - | Song Jae-Jung, the best screenw-- (lifts his head and realizes he is talking in a vacuum) |
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| - | (looks at Kang Chul running away) He's getting away... Just like that, he gets away... |
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| - | But why was I dumped with this insolent beginner? |
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| - | When we could have hired Lee Jong-Suk! |
| - | A brave little guy, who does what he's asked without begrudging... |
A few moments before...
Yeon-Joo gets out of the taxi and walks to the entrance of the bridge.
LEE SANG-DEUK (30), tall, determined, nice suit but old-fashioned.
BAEK YOUNG-SIK (40), small, fat, worried, ordinary and old-fashioned clothes.
| - | There she is! I told you she'd pick up her husband. |
| - | Boss, do we really have to do this? |
| - | No way to back down! |
| - | We'll find out what's behind this so-called Kang Chul, Kang Ta, or whoever. |
| - | And the best way is to use his relatives. hey hey! |
| - | Boss, I don't know if I'll be able to-- |
| - | Shut up! Get in position, quick! |
| - | As we said! Take advantage of the crowd and the confusion. |
| - | (moves reluctantly to the bridge) To think I missed the TV show for this... |
Young-Sik approaches Yeon-Joo in the group of curious people.
Sweat beads on his temples.
He checks the people around him, in front, behind.
All of them looking towards the bridge with concern, sighing, or shouting "Kang Chul"!
Young-Sik swallows his saliva and takes out an object.
A flat and black electronic device, which he puts between his teeth.
Bo-Boom Bo-Boom. His heart pounding, he reaches for Yeon-Joo's bag.
A colored canvas bag held over her shoulder, with a design printed on it.
BUMP! A girl bumps into Young-Sik by accident.
He spits out the electronic device. Ejected!
He panics, looks around. "Did someone find me out?"
"No, the girl went further away. Whew!"
Awe! He passes his hands over his mouth several times.
"The electronic device, where is it?!"
He panics, looks on the ground, between people's feet. Nothing!
Then he frowns... "Could it be that... "
He looks into the opening of Yeon-Joo's bag...
The electronic device is in the bag, on top of other things!
Young-Sik opens his mouth wide, elated... "thank God!"
Yeon-Joo moves towards the bridge.
"Now or never!" Young-Sik snatches the bag from her.
Yeon-Joo shouts and Young-Sik runs away with the bag.
Young-Sik runs, involuntarily shaking the bag.
Ten meters further, Sang-Deuk blocks his way.
Sang-Deuk waves, pretends to intercept Young-Sik.
When Young-Sik comes, Sang-Deuk snatches the bag from him, then...
He let him run away.
Sang-Deuk joins Yeon-Joo, smiling, by dangling the bag.
| - | Oh thank you, you're wonderful! |
| - | I think this is yours, ma'am. |
Sang-Deuk gives the bag back. The design printed on it is visible...
| - | He didn't have time to steal anything. |
Cries of surprised fans! Kang Chul comes in.
| - | What happened? |
| - | Are you all right? |
| - | I'm fine. |
| - | A thief tried to grab my bag, but this good man-- |
Kang Chul spots the thief in the distance, on the nearby avenue.
| - | Honey, you don't need to-- |
Without listening, Kang Chul runs after the fugitive.
People go with their little comments.
| - | He is incredible. |
| - | So fully in his character! |
| - | And so cute, up close... |
| - | Ah, Kang Chul remains Kang Chul, whatever the world... |
Young-Sik stands bent, his hands on his legs, out of breath.
| - | I'm tired to do his dirty work. |
| - | ... !!! (stunned, suddenly realizes something) |
The electronic device is in the bag, visible, on top of other stuff!
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| - | I didn't need to steal that damn bag! |
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| - | ... !!! (stunned, suddenly understands something) |
| - | No, it's Ok!!! The transmitter would be on top of her stuff otherwise! |
| - | I didn't do anything stupid... Well, I presume... |
| - | Mmmh. (he glances behind him, just out of spite) |
| (scared, he sees Kang Chul coming in the distance) |
| - | Aish! (Shit!) |
Young-Sik runs again. The traffic light is red, he cross the avenue.
Then he sinks into a multi-level shopping mall, open all night long.
Kang Chul arrives next to the traffic light, which turns green!
Without hesitation, he rushes between the cars. HONK! HONK! HONK! Horns concerto.
KREEEK! He almost gets hit by a car braking hard.
Instead, Kang Chul jumps on the front hood, and slides on it.
Kang Chul enters the mall, a large circular hollow tower.
In the middle, an open esplanade, with a ceiling at the top of the building.
All around, a spiral of conveyor belts serving the floors.
Kang Chul stops at the square's center, and scans the upper floors.
Young-Sik, on the second floor, takes a look over the railing.
Kang Chul spots him immediately. Sharp senses and super intuition!
| - | Aish! (Aish = Shit) |
Kang Chul rushes to the conveyor belt, and ascends the floors.
Young-Sik runs on the conveyor belt, pushing customers around.
As the floors go by, Kang Chul inevitably closes the gap.
On the 5th floor, Young-Sik notices Kang Chul at only 20 meters away.
| : | Fucked, I'm fucked! |
But luckily, he realizes he's right next to the central elevator.
A elevator with transparent windows, offering a panoramic view of the Gallery.
The doors are closing! Young-Sik enters in-extremis.
KLAM! As the doors slam, Kang Chul's appears just behind. Too late.
Young-Sik, frightened... Elevator goes down... reassured.
He quickly observes the place, and one detail catches his attention.
He steps back to get his momentum and runs towards the inner railing.
He jumps into the void!
And he grabs a huge commercial hanging.
Kang Chul loosens his grip slightly, and lets himself slide down.
| - | But... this guy is mentally insane! |
| - | Does he think I'm Hans Gruber? (Main villain of the famous action movie "Die Hard".) |
Kang Chul lands, and runs to the elevator, before it reaches the first floor.
The doors open, Kang Chul grabs Young-Sik by the collar, like an alley cat held by the neck pelt.
| - | Heading for the police station! |
Young-Sik burst into tears, blamed by the inquisitive onlookers.
Sitting on the couch, Professor Park Min-Soo looks at a medical X-ray photo.
This shows the pectoral region. On the label is written "Park Min-Soo".
Da-Ye sits next to him, holding a manhwa of "Butterfly Girl".
Min-Soo hurriedly puts the photo back into its envelope.
| - | Honey, you know, the webtoon you loved... |
| - | Did you know they started shooting it in Drama? |
| - | Da-Ye, I told you that "W" is ancient history. |
| - | I don't want to hear about this garbage can anymore. |
| - | Now the next generation is "Queen of darkness". |
| - | Ah, this manhwa is so exciting! |
| - | Apparently, the Drama will tell the last two volumes. |
| - | What? The last two volumes ?! |
| - | 35 volumes, and they will focus only on the crappy part? |
| - | The Drama screenwriter caused a scandal. |
| - | Anything else is crap. |
Stunned, the reporters stare at Song Jae-Jung on the podium.
| - | Raaah!!! (goes crazy) |
| - | 33 volumes of pure spectacular action, and all she is interested in is this abracadabrante end, disconnected from the series universe. |
| - | "W" will be permanently destroyed by this incompetent scriptwriter, unable to understand where the genius of this masterpiece stands. |
| - | She will disgust everyone, and produce a masterful flop, where no one will understand anything! |
| - | I thought it was ancient history... |
| - | Ah, but do I have to remind you that in addition... |
| - | ... this manhwa was parasitized by this traitor Oh Yeon-Joo... |
| - | ... that she resigned as soon as she received her surgeon diploma... |
| - | ... just when she was starting to produce results! |
| - | The student replacing her is ten times more incompetent than she was! |
| - | And I suffer this jerk every day!!! |
| - | It was just a character who looked like her. |
| - | She had nothing to do with it. |
| - | Of course she does! |
Da-Ye gets angry, and throws volume 5 of "Butterfly Girl" on her husband's lap.
| - | So you certainly have something to do with it, too! |
| - | Are you hiding something from me? |
| - | What is this? |
Da-Ye opens the manhwa on a page, and puts her finger on it.
| - | There! |
On a wall of the room is a picture of Da-Ye and Min-Soo younger. Identical to the drawing!
| - | Why I am in this? (TING!) |
She is sad, lost in her thoughts...
| - | Now they're talking about "Butterfly Girl"... |
| - | Rah, I missed the point! |
| - | And now we'll have to endure this tear-jerking rose-water romance. |
20 years ago, after a class session, while students leaves...
Next desk, young Soo-Bin, hair in disorder, wearing round glasses.
On a paper, she draws a girl with butterfly wings, in front of a rainbow, comic style.
| - | Medicine and surgery, a useful and serious profession! |
| - | I plan to save lives. |
| - | I too plan to fulfill my dream. |
| - | Soo-Bin, are you still obsessed with your little doodles? (he looks at her drawing with contempt) |
| - | That's ridiculous, get down to business. |
| - | This will get you nowhere, except to be unemployed. |
Young Da-Ye comes, and puts her arm familiarly on Min-Soo's shoulder.
| - | Oppa, are you coming? (Oppa = Older boy: brother, friend or lover) |
| - | (to Soo-Bin) I will have lunch with Da-Ye. |
| - | ... (distressed) |
| - | Feel free to come with us, Soo-Bin. |
| - | No, it will be fine... |
Soo-Bin has a tear in her eye.
| : | You preferred Da-Ye, as if I was invisible. |
| : | Her, whose only ambition was to become a housewife. |
| : | How could you criticize me so harshly... |
| : | ... when you chose a woman who was never going to get the stars? |
Soo-Bong comes out of the TV station building.
| - | (calls) Seonsaingnim ! |
Soo-Bin comes out of her reverie.
Soo-Bong rushes to her and takes her in his arms.
| - | Seonsaingnim, I love you! |
| - | Omo! What's the matter with you? |
The embrace remains friendly and short-lived.
| - | Seonsaingnim, I have a hell of a catch! |
| - | We're going to have a crazy time! |
| - | If you want, but no karaoke, huh? |
| - | No, we're just going to drink to lose it! |
| - | (regains her smile) I'm in! |
| - | Ah ah ah ! |
Young-Sik looks at his feet, like a guilty child.
In front of him, a CHIEF DETECTIVE (30s) behind his desk.
| - | Baek Young-Sik! |
| - | Yes, detective? (looks like a mental idiot) |
The detective points to Sang-Deuk, sitting next to Young-Sik.
| - | Is this guy your guardian? |
| - | Lee Sang-Deuk? |
| - | Yes. |
| - | (to Sang-Deuk) What's his problem? |
| - | My cousin is not a thief. He's a kleptomaniac. |
| - | It's not his fault, it's stronger than him. |
| - | He's always been a bit retarded, but he's harmless. |
| - | Huh, you fool! (hits Young-Sik's head with a newspaper) |
| - | Ouch! |
The detective looks at his computer screen.
| - | He has no criminal record... |
| - | No, you heard the testimony. |
| - | Even when he takes something, I'm here to return it. |
| - | You little punk! (hits Young-Sik again with the newspaper) |
| - | Ouch agains! |
| - | Aigoo. |
| - | The victim did not come to file her complaint. |
| - | So I'm going to release him. |
| - | Oooh... Thank you Detective! |
| - | I keep his file. |
| - | So, no more foolishness, Misters Baek Young-Sik and Lee Sang-Deuk... |
Soo-Bong, Soo-Bin and Ji Byeong-Se sit at tables.
They laugh and drink. Many other customers are in the bar, it's lively.
There are already a lot of empty Soju cans.
JI BYEONG-SE (24), wears fake glasses, and geek style clothes.
Printed on his sweatshirt, a drawing of a humanized ladybug with a sullen look.
Byeong-Se speaks with a weird, sarcastic voice, imitating someone.
| - | "Obviously, Park Soo-Bong is getting the upper hand." |
| - | "Since that TV interview, he doesn't feel himself peeing anymore!" |
| - | Oh no, you're not going to start that! |
| - | Why? He's funny... |
| - | Every time he gets drunk, he does it all night long... |
| - | Do you really think Mister Ladybug would have that voice? |
| - | "This idiot of Park Soo-Bong knows that Byeong-Se writes my dialogues." |
| - | "And that the wonderful Byeong-Se is the best person to know my voice." |
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| - | I need to drink more... |
Soo-Bin puts her arms around Byeong-Se's neck.
| - | Byeong-Se, comes to Butterfly Ajumma for a hug. |
Byeong-Se clears quickly. His glasses half slip off, he doesn't notice.
| - | Seonsaingnim, you scare me! |
| - | She got you! You dropped Mister Ladybug! |
| - | "Sorry for Butterfly Ajumma, but I never interact with other characters." |
| - | I should have brought an insecticide bomb. |
It's a place often reserved by businessmen, good quality food.
| - | Boss, you saw how that maniac chased me! |
| - | Yah! I'm buying you a fancy meal to get over it, what more do you want? |
| - | But I'm on file now. |
| - | I can't do this anymore. |
| - | Shut up, you idiot! |
| - | This tells us twice as much about this guy, and proves that we are moving in the right direction. |
| - | But I'm scared, boss. He could come after us... |
| - | Exactly! We now know that this Kang Chul, or Kang Ta, is a last-ditcher. |
| - | The kind of guy who doesn't back down from anything. |
| - | A kind of ambitious filthy bastard ready to remove all obstacles, at any cost. |
| - | We have no idea where he came from, he may have weapons. |
| - | Let's try to clarify... |
Many American passengers. The sign reads: "Arrival Dallas Flight".
| ~ | A certain Kang Ta, whose past is hidden, appears with Oh Yeon-Joo. |
Kang Chul imitates his expression in the manhwa. Rain of photo flash.
| ~ | He's hired for the main role of "W" Drama, thanks to his physical resemblance. |
A shocking title: "Kang Ta becomes Kang Chul!".
| ~ | And he's crazy enough to change his first name, and call himself as the hero. |
| ~ | Because people were reporting the resemblance to him for years. |
| ~ | Since he was joking about it, he might as well go to the end of the prank. |
| - | It's wholly dumb. |
| - | Not dumb, but bogus. |
¤ The manhwa image shows Kang Chul shooting him.
| ~ | That, plus a ton of other inconsistencies and weird things. |
| - | There's something huge hidden behind it. |
| - | Too huge for us, boss! |
| - | No, I have an idea of what's going on... |
| - | And this is thanks to an incompetent and idle ball like you. |
| - | Really boss? Did I find the key to the riddle? Are you satisfied with my services? |
| - | Uh, but what exactly did I find? |
His belly sticks out of his shirt. He distractedly scoops out his noze boogers.
| ~ | You waste your time reading those little picture books for kids. |
| - | Manhwas, boss, they're called manhwas. |
| - | But it's also for adults! |
| - | Yeah, for those retarded like kids, like you. |
| - | It's all about that manhwa you told me about. |
| - | "W", boss, a pure masterpiece! |
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| - | As if by chance, this Kang Chul turns into a drama adaptation. |
| - | And you say Oh Yeon-Joo appears in it, with an important role. |
Young-Sik holds an manhwa under his nose, showing Yeon-Joo drawn.
Irritated, Sang-Deuk snarls away Young-Sik's hand. The manhwa flies off.
| ~ | Yes, she is the heroine in the last two volumes. I showed you the drawings. |
| - | Do you want to see them again? She looks like her, doesn't she? |
| ~ | So similar that Oh Sung-Moo certainly hired her as a model. |
| - | This leads me to think that in the greatest of secrets... |
| ~ | ... this Kang Ta also have been Oh Sung-Moo's model for years... |
| - | ... and the author has done everything to hide this. |
| - | Maybe he was afraid people say he couldn't draw? |
| - | Or that he was unable to create a character from scratch? |
The room is cluttered with empty alcohol bottles up to the waist. A real garbage dump!
| ~ | Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me with such an alcoholic. |
He waves a badly made drawing, a passer-by throws a coin in the hat.
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| ~ | Besides, he had no success before that. |
Yeon-Joo's aunt is enthusiastic, her mother happy but suspicious, Soo-Bong crazy with joy.
| ~ | And that would explain how Kang Ta and Oh Yeon-Joo met, and eventually got married. |
| - | Wanker, when you want, you can get your brain working. |
Further down the street, on a sign, a wanted notice for Oh Sung-Moo.
| ~ | Until then, I suspected Kang Ta of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of Oh Sung-Moo. |
He opens a trash can. Into it, Oh Sung-Moo bound, gagged, begging.
Kang Chul smiles sadistically and closes the trash can.
| ~ | For an unknow reason, blackmail, mutual hatred, author's pressure. |
| - | But boss, how could he be in a relationship with his daughter, in this case? |
| - | Does she also have a grudge against her father? |
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| - | No, I think the truth is much more sordid. |
| - | Oh Sung-Moo has amassed a fortune, and the couple have inherited it. |
| ~ | They even have the nerve to live in Oh Sung-Moo's old house. |
| ~ | Which also serves as a workshop for them to draw manhwas! |
| - | This couple is a pair of scoundrels who have found each other well. |
| - | Bonnie and Clyde! |
| - | And they murdered Oh Sung-Moo to seize his wealth! |
| - | Boss, you're the best! |
| - | But it's only a matter of days or hours before we can prove all this. |
| - | Thanks to the radio transmitter I slipped in their bag! |
| - | So I'm going to take the case public, in all the media. |
| - | And I would be avenged on this guy, who made me cry in front of everyone. |
| - | I would become the greatest journalist in Korea. |
| - | The Pulitzer Prize is ours! |
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| - | More than that, I will be seen as a hero... |
| - | ... when I reveal the truth and tear the lives of these scumbags to shreds. |
| - | Ah ah ah ! Boss, you are really evil. |
Starring:
| - | Director Jung Dae-Yoon is himself. Extracts from the Internet. (!!!) DISCLAIMER: the character is fictional. It isn't the personality of the real person. Same name and profession, as a tribute to the creators of W. |
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| - | Kang Ji-Hwan is Lee Sang-Deuk. Excerpts from the drama "Incarnation of Money". |
| - | Yang Hyung-Wook is Baek Young-Sik. Excerpts from the drama "Incarnation of Money". |
| - | Joe Byeong-Gyu is Ji Byeong-Se. Excerpts from the drama "Radio romance". |
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| - | Yoo Seung-Mok is a police inspector. Excerpts from the drama "Yong Pal". |
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| - | Kim So-Hyun is Jang Soo-Bin young. Excerpts from the drama "Radio romance". |
| - | Cha Sun-Woo (Baro) is Park Min-Soo young. Excerpts from the drama "Angry Mom". |
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| - | Jung Chae-Yeon is a young Park Da-Ye. Excerpts from the drama "Reunited Worlds". |